Book, Visionaries, As: 4 women and salvation of philosophy 1933-43[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. The decade from 1933 to 1943 marked one of humanity's darkest chapters. Amid the horror of the rise of Nazism and the carnage of World War II, four women — Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Ayn Rand and Hannah Arendt — freed themselves from the shackles of gender and proved that the emancipation of thought could occur even in the midst of to extreme situations. With great narrative skill and a masterful balance between biographical presentation and accurate analysis of ideas, Wolfram Eilenberger offers us the story of four now legendary lives that, in the midst of upheaval, changed our way of understanding the world and laid the foundations for a much freer society. Its reflections reach today in themes such as gender, identity, religion, freedom, sex and autonomy. The thinkers were in their thirties during the period covered by the book and had not yet achieved the fame they would have in later decades. And, in fact, almost all of them had problems editing their works. Even when their life experiences differ markedly, they still have a common denominator: they were women whose intelligence allowed them to break the mold of the time. The adventures of these four visionaries took them from Stalin's Leningrad to studio-era Hollywood; from the Berlin of pitched battles between Nazis and communists to Paris occupied by Hitler; from the brutalizing European factories to New York, which generously welcomed refugees from the Old World. But, above all, it is the journey of their thoughts that would give rise to revolutionary ideas without which our present and our future would not be the same.